Saturday, December 22, 2007

Wednesday Dec 19, 2007

No running today.

Today was a rare (somewhat) voluntary day off for me. The pereoneal tendon above my left ankle was really tight this morning along with my calves, achilles tendons, and quads, but I was basically just worried about the ankle tendon. I've had problems with it in the past, and I'm hoping that one day off now will save a lot of grief later.

The ideal in the Lieh-Tzu is a state, not of withdrawal, but of heightened perceptiveness and responsiveness in an undifferentiated world. My mind concentrated and my body relaxed, bones and flesh fused completely, I drifted with the wind East or West, like a leaf from a tree or a dry husk, and never knew whether it was the wind that rode me or I that rode the wind. -The Book of Lieh-Tzu